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GEORGE ROSS, OF SOUTH BUTTE, MONTANA TERRITORY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,354, dated January 1, 1889. Application filed June 20, 1888. Serial No. 277,690. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, GEORGE Ross, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Butte, in the county of Silver Bow and Territory of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tlickct-Oases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of ticketcases that are designed to hold the tickets in a particular order to facilitate the handling and sale of the same.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction, whereby changes in the arrangement of the tickets in the rack can be readily and quickly effected.

In the accompanying drawings, which fully illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a front view of a ticket-case provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a-vertical section on the line b a of Fig. 1.

Referrii'lg to the drawings by letter, F designates a casing of any desired size and any suitable material. The rack is composed of the standards 0 and the cross-bar 0, connect ing the upper ends of the same. The standards have longitudinal grooves in their front faces, and pegs D are secured transversely in said grooves, as clearly shown.

E designates small pegs secured in the standards at the lower ends of the same and projecting forward therefrom.

A designates the ticket-holding plates, having the tongues A struck up from their centers, as shown, and provided at their corners with transverse openings B, which are engaged by the ends of links B to connect the plates together in rows or series.

In practice the tickets are engaged behind the tongues A of the ticket-holding plates,

and the plates are connected together by the links B with the tickets arranged in numerical order. The links at the upper end of the series of plates are engaged over the upper transverse peg, D, and the ticket-holding plate at the lower end of the row or series is arranged so that the opening B in its lower corners will engage over the pegE, thereby drawing the row taut and securing it in place.

In order to insert additional ticket-holding plates, the links can be quickly disengaged from the plates, the additional plates inserted at the proper point, and engaged to the links, as will be readily understood.

It will be seen that I have provided a very simple and et'ficient ticket-rack, and its advantages are thought to be obvious.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination of the longitudinally grooved standards, the transverse pegs secured in the standards, the links engaging said pegs, and the ticket-holding plates secured to said links, as set forth.

2. The combination of the grooved standards, the transverse pegs D, the forwardlyprojecting pegs E, the links H, adapted to en gage the pegs D, and the ticket-holding plates having openings in their corners engaged by the links and engaging the pegs E, as set forth.

3. The combination of the casing, the links supported within the casing, and the ticketholding plates detachably secured. at their corners to the ends of the links, .as set forth.

I GEORGE ROSS.

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HERBERT R. BURG, W. C. SIDERFIN. 

